Great potential based upon old role-playing board game about sorcerers and war between different colored dragons. Sadly this has one of the worst scripts and directing I have ever seen with a lot of actors spitting out dialogue. Jeremy Irons has never been worse overacting in a way I never thought he could do and the annoying Marlon Wayans has a comedic role. CGI disappoints too and the dragons are underwhelming.

Alright, I have a reason for seeing this, I swear—an old friend of mine and I have bad movie nights where we riff-track, and this is a goldmine in that respect if not in any other. But it's fascinating to see pre-LotR fantasy. Jackson would soon make this kind of thing bankable; one year earlier, New Line felt it needed Marlon Wayans doing some white studio exec's version of "street" talk to go down with audiences.